Although having a extremely extended life span would be a very interesting experience. We must understand that it's truely inevitable that the physcial form is going to be wiped out, regardless of of how safe you think you are, or how many more years you have survived. Think about it- your life is extended, you avoid every dangerous situation possible through the many thousands years of your life- Murder, accident, force of nature, etc.
But in the end it becomes a matter of trying to avoid every possibility within the universe, which could become increasingly harder to avoid. Such as the solar system being obliterated, just to name one. Unless of course you had within your resources a way of escaping that, which would just lead to you needing to avoid an even larger force of power. So that brings up the question, can one be considered to have achieved physical immortality even if the universe we live within isn't physically immortal itself?
Heh, actually, it probably wouldn't matter anyway if all form was wiped out in a single moment.
As for the afterlife, could immortality be considered an appropriate term to describe the state of not having a physical form, but still existing? Doesn't the word immortal imply there is a time and space in which to be considered immortal? even though the afterlife is more often that not considered a state of formlessness(neither time or space)?
Okay, that felt like a complete tangent. And I'm not sure if it all made sense. I actually disagree with some of my own perspectives here, but not entirely sure why!:P Might as well take that as a positive sign, such as "seeing the limits of my own thinking" or perspective etc.
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